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The Wendy Davis campaign in full damage control mode

The Wendy Davis campaign begins the week in full damage control mode, dealing with the first crisis the Democratic state senator has faced since she launched her run for governor on Oct. 3.

Davis’ crisis began Sunday after the Dallas Morning News reported that her remarkable journey – from single teenage mother raising her daughter in a mobile home to Harvard Law School – contains some “blurred” facts.

For instance, Davis was 21, not 19, when she was divorced and lived in the mobile home for only a few months, the News reported. In addition, her second husband Jeff Davis – whom she divorced in 2005 – paid for some of her education, mainly her last two years at Texas Christian University and her last year of law school.

The campaign of Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott – her likely opponent on Nov. 4 – and the Republican Party of Texas wasted no time to capitalize on such discrepancies.

Davis “systematically, intentionally and repeatedly deceived Texans for years about her background,” Abbott spokesman Matt Hirsch said in a statement. “Yet she expects voters to indulge her fanciful narrative.”

And the state GOP is calliing Davis' account of her life story "fuzzy memory."

Davis is fighting back accusing Abbott of “campaign attacks on the personal story of my life as a single mother who worked hard to get ahead.”